Pandemics

Here you will find an overview of our work on pandemics.

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Media coverage

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Media coverage

Sigrid Bratlie on podcast about GMOs, covid lab leaks and mutants

First published:
Inn til kjernen med Sunniva Rose
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7.4.2025

Sigrid Bratlie, Senior Advisor at Langsikt, is on Sunniva Rose's new podcast talking about why it's likely the covid virus leaked from a lab, what genetically modified organisms (GMOs) really are—and why GMOs can be really good.

- After the fall of the United States, Norway should take over the leadership jersey on global health security and preparedness

First published:
NRK Ytring
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13.3.2025

The Stoltenberg Committee on Global Health has written a chronicle of why Støre must take the lead in preventing a new (or worse) corona pandemic. Long-Term was one of the principals behind the Stoltenberg selection in the autumn of 2024.

Sigrid Bratlie at Dagens Medisin's five-year Covid-19 conference

First published:
Dagens Medisin
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12.3.2025

Five years since Covid-19 - are we better prepared for the next pandemic? Senior Adviser Sigrid Bratlie and council member Camilla Stoltenberg, attended the conference on the occasion of the fifth anniversary. Recordings can be viewed in the link.

Norway is gearing up against bird flu

First published:
VG
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9.1.2025

VG writes about Norway's response to bird flu, and mentions Langsikt among key actors who have warned against the virus early on.

Pandemics cannot be predicted

First published:
Aftenposten
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31.12.2024

Professor Emeritus Stig S. Frøland writes in Aftenposten about the bird flu and Norway's pandemic preparedness, and comments, among other things, on the uncertainty of the numbers on the likelihood of a pandemic, which the Stoltenberg committee and several of Langsikt's staff often have referred to.

Fears a new pandemic

First published:
Dagbladet
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29.12.2024

Molecular biologist and Senior Advisor in Langsikt Sigrid Bratlie is interviewed about the risk of a bird flu pandemic following outbreaks of the virus in 659 U.S. dairy farms.

The bird flu could become a race against the clock

First published:
Dagsnytt 18 (NRK)
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19.12.2024

Molecular biologist and Senior Advisor at Langsikt, Sigrid Bratlie, fears a new pandemic as a result of the flare-up of bird flu in the US.

Norway may end up at the back of the vaccine queue

First published:
Dagsnytt 18 (NRK)
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20.11.2024

“If Norway does not quickly become part of the EU health community, Norway could end up last in the vaccine line if a new pandemic strikes us. “, writes Senior Advisor in Langsikt, Sigrid Bratlie, in a chronicle in NRK Ytring. Here she meets Minister of Health Jan Christian Vestre in Dagsnytt 18 on the topic.